incidents from the war of independence in limerick
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Limerick City LibraryEvening Lecture Series
Some Incidents from the
War of Independence in Limerick
a lecture by Thomas Toomey
1912
– Anti-Unionist Riots 10/11th October
– Na Fianna Sluagh
– The IRB
1914
– Sunday 25th January 1914, Atheneum
– Landing guns at Kilcoole
‘Kelpie’
‘Chotah’
– Redmondite Split & Re-organisation
1915
– Whitsunday Parade
– Monteith ‘goes abroad’
1916
– Fiasco in Kerry
– Indecision in Killonan
– What happened Monteith?
1917
– Splits & more splits
– Limerick City
– Galtee area
1919
– Rescue of Robert Byrnes
– The Limerick Soviet
– Rescue of Seán Hogan
1920
• Shootings of February 3rd
• Shooting of Constable Oakley
• Shootings at Shanagolden & Abbeyfeale
• Shooting of Blake & O’Neill
1921
• Dromkeen Ambush
• Shootings of March 7th
• Shraherla & Lackelly
• Execution of Thomas Keane
• Peace of sorts at last
END
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